About the blogger

Bob Collins has been with Minnesota Public Radio since 1992, emigrating to Minnesota from Massachusetts. He was senior editor of news in the ’90s, ran MPR’s political unit, created the MPR News regional website, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day laments that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.

NewsCut is a blog featuring observations about the news. It provides a forum for an online discussion and debate about events that might not typically make the front page. NewsCut posts are not news stories.

Bob, thanks for hosting the chat, it was very interesting. Tech note: for some reason I had to constantly refresh the page and/or the CoveritLive widget, because it would stop updating otherwise.

Bob Collins

Matt: Did you try that icon at the bottom of the page? There’s a thingamajig there that starts and stops automatic scrolling?

Sean: I added other categories.

Matt Abe

Hmm. I did click it once or twice, not knowing what it was for. Could have been “user error” on my part.

Bob Collins

Stats from the Green Institute’s Bike to Work Day event.

Attendance

Overall attendees‐ 273 (although we KNOW there were some folks that didn’t sign in!)

• 249 Bikers‐ Total miles by bike‐ 1,782

• 9 Walkers‐ Total miles walked‐ 15

• 15 Other

Fun tidbits

• 1 unicycle

• Furthest rider‐ 50 miles (Burnsville)

• All served without a kitchen using electric fry pans, crock pots and chafing dishes.

• We tripped the breaker at least twice!

Food

• 20 dozen eggs (we had to run at get more, twice, the first time, 15 minutes into the breakfast!)

• 400 cups of Peace Coffee served!

• Served 7.5 pounds of oatmeal‐ ran out with 15 min. to go (also 3lbs raisins, 1.75 lbs of brown

sugar!)

Zero Waste Event‐ 98% trash diverted!

• 46.4 pounds of Organics

• Less than 1 pound of garbage produced or

Arif Mamdani

not trying to be rude, but that image up there of all the bikes is one that I took, I’d appreciate, and frankly expect proper attribution from MPR.

Rosa

So on the Minneapolis Greenway, where the Greenway crosses streets around Highway 55, the car side signs say “Stop for Pedestrians in Crosswalk” and the bike side signs say “Cross when safe”. So who is supposed to stop, when?